Expatsi's "Move Abroad Con" attracted hundreds of Americans hoping to move overseas.
        • motruck@lemmy.zip
          2·
          2 months ago

          I thought spain made you wait 10 years for residency. Or ate you of latin descent?

          • GarboDog@lemmy.world
            4·
            2 months ago

            No, normally you get permanent residency after 5 years, however they’ve been allowing people to get residencies far faster than before since it helps the economy.

            Also, no we’re not of any Latino descent, but we do think that would give you some sort of instant residency, but that’s dependent on your country of origin, not of lineage (USA isn’t included.)

            Honestly, if anyone is really wanting to move here, you can get a student visa with a uni or college if you already know Spanish or move for a job or move on a digital nomad visa. All will let you legally be here and while the immigration stuff is complicated; it’s pretty worth it.

            Idk if we mentioned before but we moved on a student visa to a language school and if you have the money that’s the best way in.

    • vapordays@leminal.spaceEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      In what ways are you doing better? Of course can make some good guesses, but want to hear more specifically

      • GarboDog@lemmy.world
        17·
        2 months ago

        So United States we had to struggle to make bare necessities especially since we have severe allergies and had to buy more pricey foods. So while rent was high, can’t drive so we rode a bike on roads and couldn’t get insurance. We saved every cent we could for savings towards moving and medicine.

        Now instead of eating only two small meals a day to make by we’re eating a healthy amount and while our specialized food is still pricey it’s way more affordable (holy shit 1 week of groceries is 20€?!) rent is reasonably affordable (our first place was 400/m all utilities inc, now in a new place with our partner for 150/ all utilities inc) we can easily take public transit, walk and bike anywhere we want to. There’s social services to help with almost everything we need help with. And we can do it while living off art commissions :>

        So we’re living better while being able to support ourselves with our dream job.

        We’re really lucky and work hard for what we care about and are in a place that rewards that so guess that is the TLDR lol

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      16·
      2 months ago

      Would you qualify as a refugee in Mexico or Canada? Looks like an easy enough border to cross if you would.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
        29·
        2 months ago

        I’m thinking of hiring some American illegals to clean up my lawn, they have those cute traditional outfits of khaki shorts and New Balances. Exotic!

        • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          22·
          2 months ago

          They are also used to low minimum wages and no worker protections. Don’t even need to provide them with healthcare!

      • dermanus@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        2 months ago

        I don’t know about Mexico but Canada won’t recognize refugee claims from people in the US due to safe harbour rules. It’s still considered a safe country so you can’t be a refugee from there.

  • kibblebits@quokk.auEnglish
    27·
    2 months ago

    Hopefully it’s just a few more months. I started last November. Just need those damn recruiters to do their jobs hahaha ;)

    Adios, America.

      • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
        71·
        2 months ago

        I’m pretty sure the Americans that aren’t too jingoistic to migrate qualify as the smartest and brightest, lol.

      • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        5·
        2 months ago

        Introspection and humour, top tier!

        You’ll fit right in.

        Where did you go?

        Edit: didn’t you leave for Britain? My memory isn’t what it used to be …

        • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
          7·
          2 months ago

          I’ve just been bouncing around East Asia the last year and a half, 6 months in Japan, 6 months China, a month in Korea, 5 months in Vietnam, a month in Kazakhstan. Eventually I’ll settle somewhere, but it’s complicated. I still earn USD working remotely.

  • Artaca@lemdro.idEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    Have friends moving abroad on student visas they didn’t really want but are doing as an excuse to get out. My partner won’t entertain the ideas of leaving, as our entire family is here and most are too old to consider leaving. I imagine it’s going to be too late before long.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    While I understand, and would probably join them if I could, it also occurs to me that the people the world needs in this country, to enact change, are the ones who are leaving.

    I can only imagine wherever they move to, the people there might feel the same way about them.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      My family was only American for one generation. Even if I were the second coming of John Adams, the country would have no claim on me. America raised me to believe in free republic, in cosmopolitanism and rationality, humanity, self determination, and in the inherent legitimacy of the will of the people.

      It never stopped being an empire built on slavery, slavery is enshrined into law. It only briefly stopped persecuting a top-down class war, and Smedley Butler’s resistance has been all for naught. Every good value that American culture inculcated in me has been a hypocritical sham.

      So we left. I never did fit in in the US, so I might as well live out my days as a misfit elsewhere. I’m like a local cryptid now, the man from a place that never existed.

      You want to throw yourself into the gears of history to save a decaying empire, maybe you feel like you have no other choice? I understand that too, and even though the prospect sickens me to no end I cannot think less of anyone who chooses it. Try not to think less of me, either.

    • ZebulonP@lemmy.world
      101·
      2 months ago

      Alright. I’ll get right on that sweeping societal change I’ve been putting off.

    • smeg@infosec.pubEnglish
      81·
      2 months ago

      I tried. I was an activist for years. Donated money. Knocked on doors. But when you’re battling willful ignorance, heartfelt bigotry, and an entrenched oligarchy, and everything only backslides against you… You eventually feel like you want to just live life and escape it.

      I tried to make the US better for my kid, but it’s unfixable in my opinion. So we moved to a better place.

    • ygurin@lemmy.world
      22·
      2 months ago

      Same rule applies for Russia no? I know a lot of people who left over the years with the logic I can’t do anything about it…